Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-27
What Kills Americans.
Fast iiving-----ReckIess
Eating,
Hard Drinking---Poor Sleeping
Social jealousy Political Am {
biti0ri---N iOleAt Passions.
The Race for b
Money.

is nervous SeblBty ana prOsITaIloH. IL
goes under many names, but it is essen
TALLY the same complaint. Hospitals
and private institutions for nervous pa
tfents are cr5wded. The average OF life
in the United States is decreasing every
year Sudden deaths from. nervous col
lapse among our business, professional
and public mea ere so frequent as scarce
Iy 10 excite remzEk. The majority OF sui
cides, committed without apparent rea-
son, or under so-oalled depression o.
spirits" are really prompted by nervous
prostration, which is fruitful source OF
insanity and crime with ell their grief
and horror.
These facts are startling. They threaten
the very life Of the nation. They assaI
the springs of its power and prosperity
They wreck manhood's strength and
woman's usefulness and beauty.
Every one should know the causes.
what are they. The answer IS easy and
terribly plain: eur Vicious personal hab-
its; our careless az i Iawless eating and
drinking; the intense mental ana physical
strain arising from our mad race after
money, position and Influence the fears
and struggles Of povefts; the use of mar
cotics and 5timulantss our fashion Of
turning DAY into night and night into
day; and, briefly, our desperate willing
ness to pay any price fof.an hours pleas
ure or success. So we burn LIES candle
at both ends and ill the Hunatic asyIums
and graveyards.
The disease from which we suffer and
die is, in plain English, Nero Dy&pep-
sia, as it is seated in the Nerves and in
the organs of Digestion, Assimilation
and Nutrition. Healthy digestion being
impeded or destroyed, the whole body
nerves ncluded-is Hterc3ly starred;
even when there is no emaciation to tell
the sad story.
Nervous prostration sends out its
warnings headache in the morning, q
persistent dull heaviness or aching at the
base of the brain; wakefuIness; loss of
appetite and disgust with food; loss of
mental energy and interest in ordinary
duties and business; resuessness and !
anxiety without any assignRble reason;
quotations; bad breath; foul mucous on
the teeth; occasional giddiness; palpits-
ton of the heart, sallowness of the skin;
coated tongue and gradual failure of
strength and ambition
The remedy is total abandonment of |
the habits and customs which cause the
disease in each individual case, and the
use of Shaker Extract OF Roots (Seigel's
Syrup 10 cure the mischief already done
This great remedy, prepared by the Shaz-
er Community of Mt. Lebanon, n, Y, is
especially adapted to eradicate Nervous
Dyspepsia. To do this it acts directly
and gently but powerfully upon the dis
ordered stomach, liver and kidneys, restor-
ing their tone and vigor, promoting the
secretion of bile, expelling waste matters
from the system and purifying the blood
Upon the nervous system Shaker Ba-
tract (Seigel's Syrup acts as 3 safe aud
wholesome anodyne without the slightest
narcotic effect, and then leaves the nerves
TO regain their natural tone and strength
through its wonderful influence upon the
junction of nutrition
It's safe to sag more nervous dyspepE
ics have been res tered by it from the
depths of misery to fresh enjoyment
Of life and labor than 10y any or eli other
forms of treatment combined.
4 Birmingham, Ala, wants Mr.. Blaine TO :
ESsit that iron producing secHon OF the
south. We advise him 10 so. His presi- J.